MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ketaki mean?
Ketaki names the fragrant screw-pine plant and its flower in Sanskrit. Its flowers are associated with perfume, making the name part of India's aromatic plant vocabulary.
Pronunciation
IAST: ketakī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केतकी
Letter-by-letter: ketakī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ketaki in Indian usage
19,635 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 19,394 records (98.8%).
- Recorded as male: 241 records (1.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 784 |
| 1940s | 1,786 |
| 1950s | 2,684 |
| 1960s | 3,850 |
| 1970s | 3,953 |
| 1980s | 4,134 |
| 1990s | 2,290 |
| Other decades | 154 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,855 |
| Odisha | 5,249 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,124 |
| Jharkhand | 456 |
| Bihar | 290 |
| Assam | 149 |
| Tripura | 123 |
| Other states | 389 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, ketaka, p. 308,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, ketakī, p. 309,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.